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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (23515)	5/13/2006 5:56:01 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Dpends. According to some superstitions (AKA "religions"), some types of bliss get you into Hell. Well there was always the need for people no matter how poor ignorant by city standards and stuck with the burden of living to still have some way of being "informed" of their future fate . To feel part of that "grasping" of existence religion attempts to provide . And there was always some wandering magician , philosopher, militant rebel or martyr messiah figure rising up to give it to them . It is just part of the human primate milieu of "grasping the conditions" of life and passing on the information no matter how fantastical .The bulk of people just have the need to "believe" in something magical and out of the ordinary drudge & perils of life , while just above them everyday magic happens in the heavens , but always beyond reach yet so constant . There was always the need for some kind of meaningful news and information of what may be coming the next week over the hill , and the common people were always hungering for information and the news . There was always the King or kingdom next door that could rise up , or the kingdom to come to be busy worrying about or caught up in . The Gospels literally meant "Good News" , which was in short supply in the instability everywhere 2000 yrs ago .<g " Different strokes for different folks marsh " An older friend who had done 3 tours in Vietnam as a captain in the 82nd Airborne , used to say . He'd been stationed in 20 different countries before Vietnam , and had studied & seen much of the variety of belief and habits of different human societies . He returned from Vietnam back to his rural home town and found it had its first "adult bookstore" . Took up reading Nietzsche , Kierkegaard & Kant after spending most of his life studying war ....living out in the country with his Irish wife and two kids on generator power, and raised his own chickens growing his own food . " Different Strokes for different folks", marsh...that was one of his favorite lines.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (23515)	5/13/2006 6:11:59 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Today in our society you can recieve "The Good News" in a variety of different ways ... one could say that " news & being informed" is just one of life's little preoccupations for army ants , schools of fish , flocks of birds , primates & the more wide roaming self~involved "naked apes " , who are weavers of tales: nakednews.com You can be a professional and naked too ....for it has ever been always good to know where the honey is ... the incense & holy water is optional ! ( this form of news is banned in China as "non productive" )